Arquivo

A story of clashing moral prerogatives that never looks back. Nikolai takes a job translating for three French friends who are traveling to Tbilisi to take possession of a legacy. They board a bus for the two-day journey to the castle. The bus stops to pick up an old man, his grandson, and an empty casket. We soon learn they are traveling to the village of their enemy, where the grandfather will be killed to settle a longstanding blood feud. Warned not to interfere, the French decide to follow. The feature could be a parable, but the sublime irony of The Legacy is that nobody learns anything. The film won the Jury Special Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.